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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hayes and Harlington 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
Seventy-nine inspections of factories and workshops have been
made.
There are sixty-two factories and fifty-one workshops on the register, classified as under :—
| Factories | Workshops | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft. . | 1 | Artificial Marble | 1 |
| Bakehouses | 6 | Bakehouse | 1 |
| Boot Repairs | 11 | Boot Repairs | 7 |
| Caravans | 1 | Building Materials Builders' Merchants | 1 |
| Cheese | 1 | 2 | |
| Cocoa, Chocolates, etc. | 1 | Chemical Engineers . . | 1 |
| Corn Flakes and Potato Crisps | 1 | Cycle Repairs | 13 |
| Corrugated Cardboard, etc. . . | 1 | Dressmaking | 2 |
| Electric Transformers | 1 | Joinery and Carpentry | 3 |
| Engineering | 6 | Motor Repairs | 7 |
| Fire Extinguishers | 1 | Plumbing | 1 |
| Firewood | 2 | Radio Engineers | 3 |
| Furniture | 3 | Smithies | 3 |
| Glazed Tiles, etc. | 2 | Soft Furnishings | 1 |
| Infant Foods | 1 | Timber | 1 |
| Jams, etc. | 1 | Welding, etc. | 1 |
| Joinery | 2 | Wheelwright | 1 |
| Mineral Waters | 1 | Valet Services | 2 |
| Motor Repairs | 6 | ||
| Music Rolls | 1 | ||
| Oil Blending | 1 | ||
| Paint | 1 | ||
| Pavings | 1 | ||
| Pianos | 1 | ||
| Printing | 3 | ||
| Radio, Gramophones, etc. | 1 | ||
| Rubber | 1 | ||
| Slab Partitions | 1 | ||
| Tarmacadam | 1 | ||
| Wire | 1 | ||
1.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Premises | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| I nspec-tions | Written Notices | Occupiers Prosecuted | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 46 | 12 | Nil |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 10 | _ | |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises) | 23 | 2 | |
| Total | 79 | 14 | |